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"content": "\u003cp>Dozens of local Turks, Syrians and others across the Bay Area gathered at a vigil in San Francisco’s Union Square to mourn victims and forward relief efforts for survivors of the devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake that hit southeastern Turkey and northwestern Syria last week. Hundreds of thousands of Turks and Syrians have been left homeless, with a rising death toll of 25,000 so far. The vigil held on Saturday afternoon was coordinated by volunteers with the \u003ca href=\"https://acsyria.org\">American Coalition for Syria\u003c/a>, a group of organizations that advocate for freedom, democratic reform and human rights in Syria.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Maya Fallaha, Belmont resident\"]‘It’s been a mix of initially shock and numbness, and now it’s shifting to pain, immense grief and anger.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We continue to stand in solidarity with the Turkish and Syrian people who continue to face a lot of trials and tribulations,” said Youman Horta, a 29-year-old Syrian American who lives in San Francisco. “We’re sitting here in the San Francisco Bay Area, very privileged, and the least we can do is just stand for three hours to get the word out to people. Seeing people come together, whether it’s just five or 500 … Every person counts, every dollar counts, and it helps a little bit knowing that there’s a community somewhere out there no matter how big or small.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940872\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9380-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940872\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9380-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a head scarf holds a sign that reads outside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9380-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9380-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9380-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9380-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9380-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9380-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maya Fallaha holds a sign honoring the White Helmets at Union Square in San Francisco on Feb. 11, 2023. The White Helmets are a volunteer organization providing aid to earthquake victims. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maya Fallaha from Belmont was at the vigil, mourning family members who died in the earthquake in Syria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11940413,forum_2010101892128\" label=\"Related Posts\"]“It’s been a mix of initially shock and numbness, and now it’s shifting to pain, immense grief and anger,” said Fallaha. “I have a cousin who lost his wife and 10-year-old son as they were attempting to escape their building that was collapsing as they were leaving. My cousin got out with his 4-month-old and two young children. But his eldest son, who’s 10, and his wife, did not make it out unfortunately. So the least I can do is be out here and honor what they’ve been through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The White Helmets are our biggest heroes,” said Fallaha, referring to the famed Syrian volunteers who have put their lives on the line to help civilians through years of war in Syria, and now the earthquake. “They’re the ones on the ground rescuing people. They themselves have lost people in the collapsed buildings, and they’re working day and night without rest, trying to recover as much life as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fallaha says the destruction from the earthquake is going to be a long-term catastrophe and she hopes that the world will rally behind and support the people who’ve already had to endure so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There isn’t a person that I know in my Syrian community and Turkish community that hasn’t been impacted in one way or another,” she added. “So I’m just trying to make sense of all of this and I’m not able to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Devastated infrastructure, including roads and airports, is complicating and hampering relief efforts, further exacerbated by freezing winter conditions as well as \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/02/11/1155955553/turkey-earthquake-gaziantep-displaced-people\">food and water shortages\u003c/a>. The situation in northern Syria is particularly dire, as \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/politics-syria-government-united-states-bashar-assad-e1bd001643fd8386e8ccb1fcd2a922f3\">humanitarian access is complicated by the civil war\u003c/a>, while sending funds can be blocked or slowed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.state.gov/syria-sanctions/\">U.S. sanctions\u003c/a>, despite an exemption for relief efforts. \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/science-2023-turkey-syria-earthquake-earthquakes-ad5598cbd7913e7a18b8717a04739ff9\">The first U.N. aid convoy didn’t enter Syria until Friday\u003c/a>, and Syrian Americans in the Bay Area say they have been struggling to get aid to their loved ones back home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940874\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9385-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940874\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9385-800x600.jpg\" alt='A man wearing a black jacket and t-shirt holds a sign that reads \"the White Helmets\" in a crowd of people outside.' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9385-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9385-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9385-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9385-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9385-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9385-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anas Abou-Ismail, a volunteer with the American Coalition for Syria, holds a sign honoring the White Helmets at Union Square in San Francisco on Feb. 11, 2023. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Syrian-born Anas Abou-Ismail, a kidney doctor at biotech company CareDx, has lived in the U.S. for 12 years and says relatives and friends back home have told him the government there is not distributing aid to victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re sending all these things and then they just leave it up to the Syrian regime to do whatever they want with the aid. So what they end up doing is they do a few photo ops with them, with some affected people, but then they take everything back,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humanitarian groups working in southern Turkey and northwest Syria warn that \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/earthquake-shakes-turkey-b927808f6a5c54bdb669120faa40b7bc\">Monday’s earthquake\u003c/a> will have a “long tail” — a wide range of needs that will require donations for months, or even years, after the rescue and recovery missions end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re going through a really severe winter and right now they don’t even have enough coats or jackets,” said Horta. “Syria’s also going through a famine, and things are very expensive, and there’s been a war going on. It’s not an easy thing to think about every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940875\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9387-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940875\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9387-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people stand outside holding signs in a square.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9387-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9387-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9387-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9387-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9387-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9387-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers with the American Coalition for Syria and community members gather at Union Square in San Francisco on Feb. 11, 2023. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m Syrian, so I thought that we had been really conditioned to misery over these past 12 years, but this was just really too much,” said Abou-Ismail. “The scale of the destruction, especially in northwest Syria, was just shocking. And the number of people that [died] in both countries obviously just keeps going up … So it’s been a difficult time for everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are still in the shock phase, we’re still trying to talk to everybody,” he added. “There are still people I haven’t been able to talk to, so we’re hoping for the best. But this is the phase we’re in right now just to make sure, like, who’s OK, who’s not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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They themselves have lost people in the collapsed buildings, and they’re working day and night without rest, trying to recover as much life as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fallaha says the destruction from the earthquake is going to be a long-term catastrophe and she hopes that the world will rally behind and support the people who’ve already had to endure so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There isn’t a person that I know in my Syrian community and Turkish community that hasn’t been impacted in one way or another,” she added. “So I’m just trying to make sense of all of this and I’m not able to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Devastated infrastructure, including roads and airports, is complicating and hampering relief efforts, further exacerbated by freezing winter conditions as well as \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/02/11/1155955553/turkey-earthquake-gaziantep-displaced-people\">food and water shortages\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 3:30 p.m. Wednesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rescue teams near the Turkish and Syrian border are continuing to search for people trapped under rubble after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck the region early Monday. At least \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/02/08/world/turkey-syria-earthquake\">12,000 people had been confirmed dead as of Wednesday\u003c/a> and many are still missing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area residents and community groups are now rallying to help relief efforts from afar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an emergency within an emergency. In Syria, people were already suffering as it is with a severely weakened infrastructure, depleted health care system, shortage of resources like water, electricity, you name it,” said Maya Fallaha, a Syrian American who lives in the Bay Area. “Now with the earthquake, it’s an additional blow for thousands of civilians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Skip to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#earthquakedamage\">How to help families affected by the earthquake in Turkey and Syria\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Fallaha received a text while she was at the gym from her father, who was visiting the south of Turkey, about the earthquake while he was being evacuated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He texted me saying ‘big earthquake, very strong,’” Fallaha told KQED. “Immediately I’m concerned about my aunt who lives in the North of Syria and extended family and relatives. My initial reaction was just shock and trying to account for all my friends and family living in that area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buildings collapsed in both countries, scattering streets with heavy piles of concrete and debris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Başak Altan, founder, Berkeley Turkish School\"]‘We have an economy that is dependent on turning and popping out tall buildings, big dense units in earthquake-prone zones, despite the calls from earthquake scientists, geological experts. No one is listening.’[/pullquote]The \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/feb/07/turkey-earthquake-syria-in-turkiye-2023-live-updates-latest-news-map-magnitude-7-8-scale-quake-tremor-death-toll-gaziantep-kahramanmaras\">death toll could rise to over 20,000\u003c/a>, according to Catherine Smallwood, the World Health Organization’s senior emergency officer for Europe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Turkish School founder Başak Altan felt a mix of frustration and sadness when she heard about the catastrophic quake, which comes amid an extreme winter and freezing temperatures for the affected region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of my family is in Turkey. Everyone knows someone who has been impacted, who is missing or died, friends or family they haven’t heard from. There are uncounted people in Turkey, refugees and immigrants,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Altan lives in Berkeley, and remembers waking up nearly 23 years ago when another major earthquake flattened buildings near Istanbul and killed an estimated 18,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was devastating to wake up to this again. I don’t think a lot has changed in the last two decades in Turkey in terms of making the necessary changes for safety in an earthquake. We have an economy that is dependent on turning and popping out tall buildings, big dense units in earthquake-prone zones, despite the calls from earthquake scientists, geological experts. No one is listening,” said Altan. “People can’t be taken to the hospital because the hospital is in shambles. When you have this much devastation on top of devastation, it’s impossible to fathom how you help these poor souls that are there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ghaidaa Mousabacha was born and raised in Syria, and now works as a behavioral counselor in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She stressed that one of the most powerful things people in the U.S. can do to help is donate to organizations that are providing support on the ground to save lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Keep them in your thoughts and prayers, but also make sure you speak to your government representatives about sending immediate rescue and aid,” Mousabacha said. “There is a lot of need for personnel and equipment and immediate shelter for the people without homes, especially in difficult winter conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple sources who spoke to KQED shared concerns over relief funds going through the Syrian and Turkish governments, and recommended that people who wish to donate do so through a vetted humanitarian aid group.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"earthquakedamage\">\u003c/a>Groups raising funds to provide direct aid\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://fundraise.givesmart.com/vf/EarthquakeSyria\">\u003cb>The Syrian American Medical Society\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>(SAMS)\u003c/b>\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://fundraise.givesmart.com/vf/EarthquakeSyria\">\u003cb>\u003cstrong>Foundation\u003c/strong>\u003c/b>\u003c/a> is providing on-the-ground medical aid in Northwest Syria at hospitals and other medical facilities. The agency reported that four of their medical clinics were damaged by the earthquake and three of those are no longer operational due to such severe damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://bridgetoturkiye.org/\">\u003cb>Bridge to Turkiye Fund\u003c/b>\u003c/a> is raising money to provide food, water and shelter to displaced families in southern Turkey as well as emotional support and well-being for children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://srd.ngo/\">\u003cb>Syria Relief and Development (SRD)\u003c/b>\u003c/a> has deployed around 20 ambulances to respond to injuries and is raising $75,000 to continue providing medical care, gas for ambulances, shelter and food for survivors and responders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sf-us.org/\">\u003cb>Syrian Forum USA\u003c/b>\u003c/a> provides education, job training and other economic services focused on women and young people. The organization is raising funds to provide blankets, winter clothing, shelter and heating to earthquake survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://medglobal.org/donations/general-donation-form/\">\u003cb>MedGlobal\u003c/b>\u003c/a>, an international emergency response nonprofit, provides medical support for Syrians displaced by war and violence, and is working with families affected by the earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/donate/497895759169495/\">\u003cb>Rahma WorldWide\u003c/b>\u003c/a>, based in Michigan, provides health services and food to communities in Syria and is fundraising to provide supplies to families in the earthquake disaster zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://swasia.org/donation/\">\u003cb>Swasia Charity Foundation\u003c/b>\u003c/a> is a U.S.-based humanitarian aid nonprofit raising funds for food baskets, cooked meals, blankets, heating supplies, medical consumables and other basic supplies in Syria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehelmets.org/en/\">\u003cb>The White Helmets\u003c/b>\u003c/a> are leading search-and-rescue efforts in many areas devastated by the earthquake. 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"content": "\u003cp>A powerful earthquake rocked the Northern California coast early Tuesday, jolting Humboldt County residents awake as it shattered glass, shook homes off foundations, damaged roads and left nearly 60,000 homes and businesses in the rural area without power and many without water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least a dozen people were injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc73821036/executive\">magnitude 6.4 earthquake\u003c/a> occurred at 2:34 a.m. near Ferndale, a small community about 210 miles northwest of San Francisco and close to the Pacific coast. The epicenter was just offshore at a depth of about 10 miles. Numerous aftershocks followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It felt like my roof was coming down,” said Cassondra Stoner. \"When I woke up, the only thing I could think about was, ‘Get the freaking kids.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the ground stopped moving, Stoner's family was fine — a daughter even slept through the racket. But when she showed up to work at Dollar General, she found that tiles had fallen from the ceiling, shelves were toppled and the contents of the discount store were scattered on the floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/HumCoSO/status/1605159463928795142\">No tsunami was expected\u003c/a>, the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office tweeted shortly after the quake hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936029\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/redtagged-house.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11936029\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/redtagged-house.jpeg\" alt=\"A damaged home, cordoned off with yellow caution tape.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/redtagged-house.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/redtagged-house-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/redtagged-house-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/redtagged-house-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/redtagged-house-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the 15 homes in Rio Dell that were 'red tagged' due to serious damage from the earthquake. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Residents in the area known for its redwood forests, scenic mountains and the three-county Emerald Triangle's \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/6bba8634429d4bbabf23ccd86e151db6\">legendary marijuana crop\u003c/a> are accustomed to earthquakes. But many said this was more violent and unnerving than the usual rolling motion they experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You could see the floor and walls shaking,” said Araceli Huerta. “It sounded like a freight train was going through my house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Damage to buildings and infrastructure was still being assessed Tuesday afternoon. Two Humboldt County hospitals lost power and were running on generators, but the scale of the damage appeared to be minimal compared to the strength of the quake, according to Brian Ferguson, spokesperson for the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Approximately 12 people were reported as suffering injuries, including a broken hip and a head wound, the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office said at a news conference Tuesday morning, which was interrupted by a jarring aftershock. Also, two people died — an 83-year-old and a 72-year-old — because they couldn't get timely care for \"medical emergencies” during or just after the quake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Damage was mostly focused on the small communities of Rio Dell, Ferndale and Fortuna, Cal OES Director Mark Ghilarducci said during a news conference in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"earthquakes\"]Rio Dell, a hamlet of about 3,000 people, was hardest hit by the quake, where at least 15 homes were severely damaged and deemed uninhabitable and 18 others were moderately damaged, officials said after a partial assessment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s water system was shut down to repair leaks and will be offline for as long as two days, with portable toilets set up at City Hall and water being handed out at the fire house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bridge over the Eel River built in 1911, which is the main route into Ferndale, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CaltransDist1/status/1605194902320488449\">was damaged and closed to traffic\u003c/a>, requiring a longer detour through the mountains to reach the quaint Victorian town, where all of Main Street is on the National Register of Historic Places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caroline Titus, former owner of the Ferndale Enterprise newspaper, said the quake only broke a few windows on storefronts. At her 140-year-old home, though, plants were knocked over, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/caroline95536/status/1605157659589476355\">her coffee bar crashed to the floor\u003c/a>, pictures fell off the wall and books tumbled from shelves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s all just pain-in-the-butt type of damage,” Titus said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The earthquake occurred in an area known as the Mendocino Triple Junction, where three tectonic plates meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in this moment of geologic time where the most exciting, dynamic area of California happens to be Humboldt County and the adjacent offshore area,” said Lori Dengler, professor emeritus of geology at Cal Poly Humboldt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CaltransDist1/status/1605268962454908928\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since a magnitude 7.2 quake jolted the area in 1992, injuring hundreds, sparking fires and destroying many homes, building codes have required retrofits to make structures much more resilient to the shaking, Titus said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, she said, each strong quake evokes the same fear: “Is this the one. Is this the nine-pointer?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Then you’re thinking, ‘I’ll just ride it out,’” she said. “Then the adrenaline catches up with you and there are a lot of swear words.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The power outage involved the main transmission line that runs into the region, and Pacific Gas and Electric’s restoration work was slowed because rain prevented use of a helicopter to assess damage, said state Sen. Mike McGuire, a Democrat who represents the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility said it expected electricity to be restored within 24 hours, but 57,000 customers remained without power by mid-afternoon Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nearby city of Eureka, with a population 26,000, said on its website that “no significant damage” was immediately reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eureka resident Dan Dixon said he and his wife were sleeping when the quake jolted them awake and shook everything, throwing pictures in their home to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936028\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Dollar-Store.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11936028 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Dollar-Store-e1671585827437.jpeg\" alt=\"Inventory is scattered across the floor of a dark store.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1209\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Dollar-Store-e1671585827437.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Dollar-Store-e1671585827437-800x504.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Dollar-Store-e1671585827437-1020x642.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Dollar-Store-e1671585827437-160x101.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Dollar-Store-e1671585827437-1536x967.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inventory lies scattered across the floor of a Dollar General store in Rio Dell, following a 6.4 magnitude earthquake early Tuesday morning. Much of the area lost power. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was probably the most violent earthquake we have felt in the 15 years I have lived here,” he said. “It physically moved our bed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larkin O’Leary, 41, of Santa Rosa, traveled to spend her anniversary with her husband in Ferndale, where they had been shaken by an earthquake last year. They decided to try again and booked the romance package at a historic inn, the same spot as a year ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Leary said she woke at 2:30 a.m. with an eerie feeling and tried to go back to sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I laid back down again and it was almost as if someone jumped on the bed,” she said. “It was so terrifying. ... It shook in a way I had never experienced. It was up, down, all around.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple quickly got out of Ferndale and returned to their home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Never again,” O’Leary said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The quake triggered a massive response by the West Coast's warning system that detects the start of a quake and alerts people by cellphone in the affected region to take safety precautions in the seconds before strong shaking reaches them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The system pushed out alerts to some 3 million people in Northern California early Tuesday, state officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The earthquake came just days after \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/san-francisco-earthquakes-bdfc123404137ee9fbecd61954b65d0c\">a small magnitude 3.6 earthquake struck\u003c/a> the San Francisco Bay Area, waking up thousands of people before 4 a.m. Saturday and causing minor damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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But after the tsunami, she got only silence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“None of them answered,” Pauta said. “We were worried, my family and I, we were worried about our relatives back home in Tonga.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 61,000 Tongans live in the United States, according to the U.S. Census — a large number, compared to the total population of Tonga itself, which is about 105,000. A sizable Tongan community calls the Bay Area home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What little Pauta could see of her home island were videos streamed on Facebook Live from some Tongans immediately after the eruption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was so loud,” Pauta said.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mele Pauta, a Bay Area Tongan interpreter\"]‘There is a thick coat of ash on the ground and just widespread damage of buildings.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-55 Component-p-0-2-46\">Satellite images showed the \u003ca class=\"\" href=\"https://twitter.com/US_Stormwatch/status/1482229220415721475?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spectacular eruption\u003c/a> that took place Saturday evening, with a plume of ash, steam and gas rising like a mushroom above the blue Pacific waters. A sonic boom could be heard as far away as Alaska.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-55 Component-p-0-2-46\">Plumes from the explosion reached more than 12 miles above sea level, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/tongageologicalservice\">Tonga Geological Services\u003c/a>. At its widest, the cloud caused by the ash and steam reached about 150 miles across, making it easily seen from satellites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-55 Component-p-0-2-46\">In Tonga it sent tsunami waves crashing across the shore and people rushing to higher ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/sakakimoana/status/1482218193619865600?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pauta spoke Tongan at home as a child, and was raised on the island until she was 6 years old. She said the volcanic eruption and subsequent tsunami struck fear in her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you hear ‘tsunami,’ it’s very scary because Tonga is an island and it’s pretty flat,” she said, meaning there are few places to flee for higher ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is some hope. People from New Zealand, Australia and elsewhere have pledged support, which Pauta said may be an avenue to get updates about specific people on the island of Tonga. And there haven’t been any reports of deaths from the island yet, another light in the gloom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe they’re safe,” she said. Still, things seem dire for those trying to recover their lives. “There is a thick coat of ash on the ground and just widespread damage of buildings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-55 Component-p-0-2-46\">Dave Snider, the tsunami warning coordinator for the National Tsunami Warning Center in Palmer, Alaska, said it was very unusual for a volcanic eruption to affect an entire ocean basin, and the spectacle was both “humbling and scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-55 Component-p-0-2-46\">The tsunami waves caused damage to boats as far away as New Zealand and Santa Cruz, California, but did not appear to cause any widespread damage. Snider said he anticipated the tsunami situation in the U.S. and elsewhere to continue improving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-55 Component-p-0-2-46\">Tsunami advisories were earlier issued for Japan, Hawaii, Alaska and the U.S. Pacific coast. The U.S. Geological Survey estimated the eruption caused the equivalent of a magnitude 5.8 earthquake. Scientists said tsunamis generated by volcanoes rather than earthquakes are relatively rare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWS_NTWC/status/1482460106851770371/photo/1\">an NWS update as of 3:15 p.m. ET\u003c/a>, the highest surge was recorded in Port San Luis, Calif., where the water reached more than 4 feet over normal levels. Authorities had prepared early Saturday for the possibility of a small yet potentially disruptive surge. Beaches were cleared from San Diego to San Francisco. More than 100 people were evacuated from the boats, docks and shoreline of the Berkeley Marina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-55 Component-p-0-2-46\">The tsunami advisory in the San Francisco Bay Area \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11901839/dont-go-to-the-beach-west-coast-under-tsunami-advisory\">was lifted Saturday night\u003c/a>, though Santa Cruz and other areas along the California coast were still under advisory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-55 Component-p-0-2-46\">The Tonga Meteorological Service said a tsunami warning was declared for all of the archipelago, and data from the Pacific tsunami center said waves of 2.7 feet were detected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-55 Component-p-0-2-46\">Rachel Afeaki-Taumoepeau, who chairs the New Zealand Tonga Business Council, said she hoped the relatively low level of the tsunami waves would have allowed most people to get to safety, although she worried about those living on islands closest to the volcano. She said she hadn’t yet been able to contact her friends and family in Tonga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tonga gets its internet via an undersea cable from Suva, Fiji. All internet connectivity with Tonga was lost at about 6:40 p.m. local time, said Doug Madory, director of internet analysis for the network intelligence firm Kentik.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Bay Area Tongans were able to get hold of family just before the island went dark. Sosefo Penitani of Tracy works as secretary for the U.S. Tongan Catholic Chaplaincy and grew up in Tonga — he came to the Bay Area when he was 18, in 1986. He has 13 siblings and counts brothers, sisters and other family in Tonga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe in large families,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Penitani told KQED he was able to talk to three of his siblings still living in the islands just before cellphone and internet service was completely disrupted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The good thing when we talked to them, the waves was coming is not a high-rise wave — they were talking about 3-, 4-foot instead of 10- or 20-foot waves there,” Penitani said. “So that’s the luckiest part of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Penitani said that, at first, his family didn’t take the possibility of a tsunami seriously. But they feel differently now. Penitani said he believes his family made it to some higher elevation on one side of the island. But he’s heard of homes in Tonga flooding. Already, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/01/15/us/tsunami-california-tonga\">reports from neighboring New Zealand\u003c/a> have said there is much structural damage on the island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The lucky thing is nobody was [dead] from this” so far, he said. “That’s the main thing that brings us relief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he said, he fears future tsunamis there, as scientists work to determine whether the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano will erupt again soon. The devastation that could bring, even just in damage to homes, if not lives, worries him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We ask,” he said, “for people to include our Tongan people with their prayers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez and Sara Hossaini, Nick Perry of The Associated Press, and Becky Sullivan of NPR contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]P[/dropcap]eter Jon Shuler, who’s retiring from KQED News on Tuesday after more than three decades of reporting, wasn’t completely clear on Bay Area geography when he arrived here in 1988.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had spent five years in New York City honing his craft as a radio engineer and beginning to report his own audio pieces on avant garde music when he and his wife, Jamie Beckett, moved west so she could take a job as a business reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_48300,news_11665625,news_11630737,news_11593119\" label=\"Peter Jon Shuler at KQED\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter had worked for WBAI, the New York outlet for the Pacifica network of community radio stations, and done some engineering and tape syncs for NPR. 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He’s tracked the South Bay’s emergence as the region’s center of gravity and its importance as one of the world’s most important innovation centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter did all that while maintaining a self-effacing humor, showing a rare penchant for connecting with other people and displaying a constant willingness to go wherever his editors pointed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will miss him so much at KQED,” says Holly Kernan, the company’s chief content officer, who has known Peter for decades. “He is a great writer, funny as hell and has a depth of knowledge of the South Bay that is unparalleled. He is a wonderful reporter, a compassionate colleague and KQED is fortunate that he lent his considerable talents to our audience. I can’t wait to see what he does next.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachael Myrow, KQED’s Silicon Valley bureau chief, describes Peter as “gracious, thoughtful, a delight to work with, a rock solid journalist with a gentle sense of humor that twinkles in his stories for the ray-dee-oh, especially his features.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Ted Goldberg, senior editor for KQED’s broadcast news desk, says Peter is “patient, empathetic and considerate: all the qualities I look for in a friend. He’s also smart and tenacious with a strong sense of justice: all the qualities I look for in a reporter. I will miss working with him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]P[/dropcap]eter Jon Shuler began life in September 1958 the town of Berrien Springs, in southwestern Michigan. He was the third child of Carrell V. “Bud” Shuler, a Berrien Springs native, and the former Isabel Jenny, who grew up in the Bronx in New York City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His parents’ courtship began when Bud Shuler was in New York as part of his World War II military service. Like many Seventh-day Adventists, he was a conscientious objector who served as a medic, his assignment being the hospital ship Wisteria, which starting in 1944 brought wounded U.S. servicemen back to the United States from Europe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They met at a social for the servicemen, and they fell in love,” Peter says. “On their first date, they walked all the way up to the Cloisters (at the northern tip of Manhattan) and then back to Grand Central Terminal.” That’s an 8- or 9-mile walk. Each way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter was brought up in the Seventh-day Adventist Church and attended religious schools from first grade all the way through college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11826841\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 705px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/pj-sibs.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11826841\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/pj-sibs.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"705\" height=\"701\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/pj-sibs.jpeg 705w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/pj-sibs-160x159.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Jon Shuler, standing, with sister Marijane and brother Carrell Shuler II. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Peter Jon Shuler)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He says growing up as an Adventist “gave me a certain set of values that I held as ideals, even when I didn’t live up to them fully. And those have had a significant influence on my life and work, among them a strong work ethic and sense of integrity; also compassion and desire for justice for the weak and voiceless and the value of other people and putting other people first.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter says there was something else that came out of that upbringing, too: “a value that is not strictly part of the religion but is a part of the culture — a love for learning and the life of the mind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He credits a couple of the teachers he had in his early years with allowing him to experiment with his creative side and broaden his knowledge of world literature and culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11826843\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 966px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/pj-bedtimestories.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11826843\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/pj-bedtimestories.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"966\" height=\"777\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/pj-bedtimestories.jpeg 966w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/pj-bedtimestories-800x643.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/pj-bedtimestories-160x129.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 966px) 100vw, 966px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Jon Shuler, tuckered out in the early 1960s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Peter Jon Shuler )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>His sixth-grade teacher, Alex Miskiewicz (the pronouncer is MISS-kuh-wits), “encouraged a lot of my foolishness and a lot of my crazy projects,” Peter says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such as?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was my hare-brained idea to do a comedy sketch show” — something like TV’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062601/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Laugh-In\u003c/a>“.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of my best friends and I sort of pitched it to him and talked him into letting us do it, and we put it on for the rest of the school,” he says. “Not for the parents — strictly for the other kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mr. Miskiewicz supported other projects, too — for instance, a production of Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol and an avant-garde art installation created with a refrigerator box painted and decorated with student paintings and sculptures. “He invented an award that year, ‘the principal’s award,’ to encourage our creative efforts,” Peter says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Andrews Academy high school, the history and civics teacher, Farrell Gilliland, sponsored a class on world literature “way outside anything else in the curriculum.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We met at lunchtime. We’d bring our trays into his class,” Peter recalls. “One quarter he taught us the Ring Cycle. He brought in Wagner records and played stuff like ‘The Ride of the Valkyries’ and went through the text — the text was the excuse for teaching it as a literature course.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other works Gilliland taught included “The Prophet,” by Khalil Gibran, and “The Pillow Book,” a classic of Japanese literature. “It was a glimpse of worlds that were far outside our little town,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11826851\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/pj-radio.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11826851\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/pj-radio-800x624.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"624\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/pj-radio-800x624.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/pj-radio-1020x796.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/pj-radio-160x125.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/pj-radio.jpeg 1323w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Jon Shuler as a Berrien Springs, Michigan, high school student at Andrews University’s college radio station, WAUS. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Peter Jon Shuler)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]A[/dropcap]t Andrews University, Peter majored in communications, minored in English and worked for WAUS, the college radio station, which was an early NPR affiliate. After graduating, he spent time at Radio 74, a station in France broadcasting to the English-speaking community in Geneva, Switzerland. Returning to the States in 1983, he took up residence in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the reason for landing there was to pursue a dream growing out of his theatrical experience in high school and college to see if he could make it in theater or stand-up comedy. He describes that experience as “frustrating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a pretty good actor, but I’m not a good auditioner,” Peter says. “At the time, I didn’t have the resilience to do that. It’s a hard road. I got a few parts — not paying parts, but student productions, like at Columbia theater school, stuff like that. And if I kept at it, maybe something would have happened. But I got to the point where I wanted to have an income. So I chose radio.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter did go back to acting, in community theater in the South Bay and with a paying job for murder mystery dinner theater productions that he continued for more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11826844\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/shulerpix-2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11826844\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/shulerpix-2-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/shulerpix-2-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/shulerpix-2-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/shulerpix-2-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/shulerpix-2-1536x1018.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/shulerpix-2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Jon Shuler, sitting right, in a community theater production of William Saroyan’s “The Time of Your Life.” \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Peter Jon Shuler)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But starting in New York, he paid the bills with his broadcast skills. He was one of just a handful of paid employees at Pacifica’s WBAI, working as one of the station’s mix engineers. He also picked up work for NPR and other outlets. Among those he worked with was Amy Goodman, of “\u003ca href=\"https://www.democracynow.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Democracy Now\u003c/a>” fame, mixing a documentary piece she produced for WBAI on the 1911 \u003ca href=\"https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/uncovering-the-history-of-the-triangle-shirtwaist-fire-124701842/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Triangle Shirtwaist Fire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The craft and art of radio production is one of the big changes he’s seen and digital tools have taken the place of analog ones that required the physical cutting and splicing of tape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I sort of miss it, ’cause there’s a real kinesthetic feel to it,” Peter says. “It’s very satisfying — what I imagine potters feel when they put clay on the wheel, because you’re playing the tape along, you find the place you want to be, you stop it, and you kind of rock the reels with you hands back and forth, and it goes \u003cem>bwip bwoop, bwip bwoop\u003c/em> till you find just that sweet spot, right after the breath and before the word, and you mark it right on the tape head with a grease pencil, and then you bring the tape up onto the editing block and you slice it with a razor blade, then you pull it through to the place you want to edit to and you mark that with a grease pencil, then you stick them together with editing tape.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n 1988, Peter relocated to California. Amid a series of day jobs — one involved trying to sell firms displaying their wares at conventions on buying pictures of their booths — he soon began freelancing for KQED. One of his early assignments was keeping an overnight vigil at the site of a historic Bay Area tragedy: the collapse of the Nimitz Freeway’s Cypress Structure in West Oakland during the October 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was a rude awakening for me, because I’d never experienced an earthquake,” Peter says. “I got a quick education in all things seismic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The night after the quake, he was sent out to Oakland to monitor the search and rescue operation at the wrecked double-deck freeway structure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were cars and people trapped between the two layers, and I was out there all night, just really doing a death watch, waiting as rescue crews worked through the rubble trying to find if anyone was left,” he says. “It was a very grim time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After joining KQED full time to cover the South Bay in 1990, Peter spent much of his time covering the growing influence of Silicon Valley and its frequent ups and downs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11826863\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/shuler-profile.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11826863\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/shuler-profile-1020x1275.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/shuler-profile-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/shuler-profile-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/shuler-profile-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/shuler-profile-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/shuler-profile.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Jon Shuler. \u003ccite>(KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The technology business is cyclical,” he says. “We’ve seen boom and bust and boom and bust. Every time there’s a boom, people come here and act like it’s going to last forever, and it never does. But then the bust never lasts forever, either. It’s taught me a little bit about perspective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter brings some of that perspective to bear in reflecting on retiring at a time when the coronavirus pandemic has plunged the entire nation into yet another bust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I guess I feel a little bit grateful that I have the privilege to shelter in place,” he says. “So many other people have been forced to work in the face of this, and I think it’s a rare bit of privilege to not have to worry about, ‘Do I want to get paid, or do I want to protect my health?’ It just makes me think of the inequality in this world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In retirement, Peter plans to write. And when life gets back to something approximating “normal,” he hopes to travel, get back to acting and do volunteer work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rise of that always-on culture was just one of many changes in our world that Peter Jon Shuler covered as a KQED reporter. In addition to all the policy and trend pieces, the business coverage, keeping tabs on elected officials, the daily litany of fire, flood, strikes, threatened strikes, housing, homelessness, trial, tragedy and triumph, he’s covered one major earthquake, two or maybe three big economic bubbles and four recessions. He’s tracked the South Bay’s emergence as the region’s center of gravity and its importance as one of the world’s most important innovation centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter did all that while maintaining a self-effacing humor, showing a rare penchant for connecting with other people and displaying a constant willingness to go wherever his editors pointed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will miss him so much at KQED,” says Holly Kernan, the company’s chief content officer, who has known Peter for decades. “He is a great writer, funny as hell and has a depth of knowledge of the South Bay that is unparalleled. He is a wonderful reporter, a compassionate colleague and KQED is fortunate that he lent his considerable talents to our audience. I can’t wait to see what he does next.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachael Myrow, KQED’s Silicon Valley bureau chief, describes Peter as “gracious, thoughtful, a delight to work with, a rock solid journalist with a gentle sense of humor that twinkles in his stories for the ray-dee-oh, especially his features.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Ted Goldberg, senior editor for KQED’s broadcast news desk, says Peter is “patient, empathetic and considerate: all the qualities I look for in a friend. He’s also smart and tenacious with a strong sense of justice: all the qualities I look for in a reporter. I will miss working with him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">P\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>eter Jon Shuler began life in September 1958 the town of Berrien Springs, in southwestern Michigan. He was the third child of Carrell V. “Bud” Shuler, a Berrien Springs native, and the former Isabel Jenny, who grew up in the Bronx in New York City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His parents’ courtship began when Bud Shuler was in New York as part of his World War II military service. Like many Seventh-day Adventists, he was a conscientious objector who served as a medic, his assignment being the hospital ship Wisteria, which starting in 1944 brought wounded U.S. servicemen back to the United States from Europe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They met at a social for the servicemen, and they fell in love,” Peter says. “On their first date, they walked all the way up to the Cloisters (at the northern tip of Manhattan) and then back to Grand Central Terminal.” That’s an 8- or 9-mile walk. Each way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter was brought up in the Seventh-day Adventist Church and attended religious schools from first grade all the way through college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11826841\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 705px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/pj-sibs.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11826841\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/pj-sibs.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"705\" height=\"701\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/pj-sibs.jpeg 705w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/pj-sibs-160x159.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Jon Shuler, standing, with sister Marijane and brother Carrell Shuler II. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Peter Jon Shuler)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He says growing up as an Adventist “gave me a certain set of values that I held as ideals, even when I didn’t live up to them fully. And those have had a significant influence on my life and work, among them a strong work ethic and sense of integrity; also compassion and desire for justice for the weak and voiceless and the value of other people and putting other people first.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter says there was something else that came out of that upbringing, too: “a value that is not strictly part of the religion but is a part of the culture — a love for learning and the life of the mind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He credits a couple of the teachers he had in his early years with allowing him to experiment with his creative side and broaden his knowledge of world literature and culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11826843\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 966px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/pj-bedtimestories.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11826843\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/pj-bedtimestories.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"966\" height=\"777\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/pj-bedtimestories.jpeg 966w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/pj-bedtimestories-800x643.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/pj-bedtimestories-160x129.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 966px) 100vw, 966px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Jon Shuler, tuckered out in the early 1960s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Peter Jon Shuler )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>His sixth-grade teacher, Alex Miskiewicz (the pronouncer is MISS-kuh-wits), “encouraged a lot of my foolishness and a lot of my crazy projects,” Peter says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such as?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was my hare-brained idea to do a comedy sketch show” — something like TV’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062601/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Laugh-In\u003c/a>“.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of my best friends and I sort of pitched it to him and talked him into letting us do it, and we put it on for the rest of the school,” he says. “Not for the parents — strictly for the other kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mr. Miskiewicz supported other projects, too — for instance, a production of Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol and an avant-garde art installation created with a refrigerator box painted and decorated with student paintings and sculptures. “He invented an award that year, ‘the principal’s award,’ to encourage our creative efforts,” Peter says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Andrews Academy high school, the history and civics teacher, Farrell Gilliland, sponsored a class on world literature “way outside anything else in the curriculum.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We met at lunchtime. We’d bring our trays into his class,” Peter recalls. “One quarter he taught us the Ring Cycle. He brought in Wagner records and played stuff like ‘The Ride of the Valkyries’ and went through the text — the text was the excuse for teaching it as a literature course.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other works Gilliland taught included “The Prophet,” by Khalil Gibran, and “The Pillow Book,” a classic of Japanese literature. “It was a glimpse of worlds that were far outside our little town,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11826851\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/pj-radio.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11826851\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/pj-radio-800x624.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"624\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/pj-radio-800x624.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/pj-radio-1020x796.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/pj-radio-160x125.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/pj-radio.jpeg 1323w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Jon Shuler as a Berrien Springs, Michigan, high school student at Andrews University’s college radio station, WAUS. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Peter Jon Shuler)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">A\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>t Andrews University, Peter majored in communications, minored in English and worked for WAUS, the college radio station, which was an early NPR affiliate. After graduating, he spent time at Radio 74, a station in France broadcasting to the English-speaking community in Geneva, Switzerland. Returning to the States in 1983, he took up residence in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the reason for landing there was to pursue a dream growing out of his theatrical experience in high school and college to see if he could make it in theater or stand-up comedy. He describes that experience as “frustrating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a pretty good actor, but I’m not a good auditioner,” Peter says. “At the time, I didn’t have the resilience to do that. It’s a hard road. I got a few parts — not paying parts, but student productions, like at Columbia theater school, stuff like that. And if I kept at it, maybe something would have happened. But I got to the point where I wanted to have an income. So I chose radio.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter did go back to acting, in community theater in the South Bay and with a paying job for murder mystery dinner theater productions that he continued for more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11826844\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/shulerpix-2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11826844\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/shulerpix-2-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/shulerpix-2-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/shulerpix-2-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/shulerpix-2-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/shulerpix-2-1536x1018.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/shulerpix-2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Jon Shuler, sitting right, in a community theater production of William Saroyan’s “The Time of Your Life.” \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Peter Jon Shuler)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But starting in New York, he paid the bills with his broadcast skills. He was one of just a handful of paid employees at Pacifica’s WBAI, working as one of the station’s mix engineers. He also picked up work for NPR and other outlets. Among those he worked with was Amy Goodman, of “\u003ca href=\"https://www.democracynow.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Democracy Now\u003c/a>” fame, mixing a documentary piece she produced for WBAI on the 1911 \u003ca href=\"https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/uncovering-the-history-of-the-triangle-shirtwaist-fire-124701842/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Triangle Shirtwaist Fire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The craft and art of radio production is one of the big changes he’s seen and digital tools have taken the place of analog ones that required the physical cutting and splicing of tape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I sort of miss it, ’cause there’s a real kinesthetic feel to it,” Peter says. “It’s very satisfying — what I imagine potters feel when they put clay on the wheel, because you’re playing the tape along, you find the place you want to be, you stop it, and you kind of rock the reels with you hands back and forth, and it goes \u003cem>bwip bwoop, bwip bwoop\u003c/em> till you find just that sweet spot, right after the breath and before the word, and you mark it right on the tape head with a grease pencil, and then you bring the tape up onto the editing block and you slice it with a razor blade, then you pull it through to the place you want to edit to and you mark that with a grease pencil, then you stick them together with editing tape.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">I\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>n 1988, Peter relocated to California. Amid a series of day jobs — one involved trying to sell firms displaying their wares at conventions on buying pictures of their booths — he soon began freelancing for KQED. One of his early assignments was keeping an overnight vigil at the site of a historic Bay Area tragedy: the collapse of the Nimitz Freeway’s Cypress Structure in West Oakland during the October 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was a rude awakening for me, because I’d never experienced an earthquake,” Peter says. “I got a quick education in all things seismic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The night after the quake, he was sent out to Oakland to monitor the search and rescue operation at the wrecked double-deck freeway structure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When Nicole was growing up, her grandmother always told her: Don’t live anywhere built on artificial fill. Her uncle also had strong memories of watching the Marina District burn after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, when parts of the ground liquefied, causing buildings to collapse and gas lines to break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicole wants to follow her grandmother’s advice, but she needs to know a few things: \u003cstrong>“What neighborhoods and cities in the Bay Area are built on filled land? And what are those cities and neighborhoods doing to mitigate the risk of liquefaction?”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11799336\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 980px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/02/06/large-parts-of-the-bay-area-are-built-on-fill-why-and-where/screen-shot-2020-01-31-at-11-31-01-am/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11799336\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11799336\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-31-at-11.31.01-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"1228\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-31-at-11.31.01-AM.jpg 980w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-31-at-11.31.01-AM-160x200.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-31-at-11.31.01-AM-800x1002.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco shoreline from 1895. Pink shows areas of artificial fill; blue shows historical marshlands and creeks. \u003ccite>(Oakland Museum of California)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>What is fill?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Often, when we colloquially refer to fill around the Bay Area, we’re actually referring to two different things:\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>Artificial fill \u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Former or “reclaimed” marshlands and wetlands.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Artificial fill\u003c/em> is land that was created by piling up soil, mud, rocks, rubble and dirt. In many cases, mud was pumped up from the bottom of the San Francisco Bay to fill in piles of rocks, then allowed to dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In most cases, this fill was put on top of low-lying areas or shallow wetlands and marshlands. For example, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11790693/magic-city-and-the-making-of-treasure-island\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Treasure Island was made\u003c/a> by piling rocks and mud on the shoals north of Yerba Buena Island. The land that is now the Marina neighborhood in San Francisco was originally filled in for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition — in some cases using debris and rubble from the 1906 earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11799305\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/02/06/large-parts-of-the-bay-area-are-built-on-fill-why-and-where/rs40412_sfpl-ti-construction-dredging-aad-3783_600dpi-qut-1200x885/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11799305\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11799305\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40412_SFPL-TI-Construction-dredging-AAD-3783_600dpi-qut-1200x885.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"885\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40412_SFPL-TI-Construction-dredging-AAD-3783_600dpi-qut-1200x885.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40412_SFPL-TI-Construction-dredging-AAD-3783_600dpi-qut-1200x885-160x118.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40412_SFPL-TI-Construction-dredging-AAD-3783_600dpi-qut-1200x885-800x590.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40412_SFPL-TI-Construction-dredging-AAD-3783_600dpi-qut-1200x885-1020x752.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Army Corps of Engineers dredged up the equivalent of 2½ million dump trucks of bay mud and sand to construct Treasure Island. \u003ccite>(San Francisco History Center/San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Reclaimed marshlands and wetlands\u003c/em> are not technically fill. However, building levees and draining marshes did change the coastline of the bay, allowing for more development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of years ago, the coastline of the Bay Area looked very different. In many places, the edges of the bay were marshland or wetlands. During the late 1800s and early 1900s, lots of that got drained. People built levees and “reclaimed” the land for what they considered useful purposes, like agriculture. These days, some of those levees have been torn down and land is being returned to tidal marshes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11799307\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1434px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/02/06/large-parts-of-the-bay-area-are-built-on-fill-why-and-where/screen-shot-2020-01-31-at-10-08-04-am/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11799307\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11799307\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-31-at-10.08.04-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1434\" height=\"978\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-31-at-10.08.04-AM.png 1434w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-31-at-10.08.04-AM-160x109.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-31-at-10.08.04-AM-800x546.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-31-at-10.08.04-AM-1020x696.png 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1434px) 100vw, 1434px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These maps from the San Francisco Estuary Institute show what was tidal marshland back around 1800 (left) and what today is still marsh, what’s been restored to tidal bay lands and what is in the works (right). \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfbayjv.org/project-maps.php\">San Francisco Bay Joint Venture\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Why did we use fill in the Bay Area?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Because fill in the bay let us build, live and farm on land that was previously uninhabitable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the mid-1800s, \u003ca href=\"https://boomcalifornia.com/2017/09/27/californias-legacy-of-swamplands/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the U.S. Congress passed the U.S. Swamp Land Acts\u003c/a>. These were originally designed to help Louisiana drain its swamp lands and build levees — but were quickly put to use in other states. The laws allowed people to claim wetlands or marshlands as their own property if they drained it and used it for an agricultural purpose. This led to a spree of building levees and draining wetlands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the late 1950s, the Army Corps of Engineers did a study on the development of the Bay Area. They found 243 square miles of land “available for reclamation” \u003cem>had been\u003c/em> reclaimed. That’s a lot of former marshlands, wetlands and tidal lands to have drained or filled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4030153&view=1up&seq=112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You can read the full study here. It’s wild.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What are the problems with artificial fill?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>By the 1960s, we mostly stopped filling in the Bay because of growing environmental concerns. After the Army Corps of Engineers did its study of the Bay Area, they published a map projecting what the bay would look like if we continued to fill it in. The picture so alarmed people that eventually the state Legislature put an end to bay fill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11799315\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2430px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/02/06/large-parts-of-the-bay-area-are-built-on-fill-why-and-where/attachment/9494033/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11799315\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11799315\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/9494033.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2430\" height=\"2735\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/9494033.jpg 2430w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/9494033-160x180.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/9494033-800x900.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/9494033-1020x1148.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/9494033-1920x2161.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2430px) 100vw, 2430px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The map showing projected plans to fill in more portions of the bay by 2020. \u003ccite>(U.S. Army Corp of Engineers)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The other major problem with artificial fill, which wasn’t well known 100 years ago, is the earthquake danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Keith Knudsen of the U.S. Geological Survey, the fill built on top of bay mud or soft ground is at risk for ground failure or liquefaction during an earthquake. A lot of that old fill was not built with the best engineering practices. It was also frequently placed on top of mud or soft deposits, which amplify shaking. When you have high ground water, loose materials and heavy shaking, those deposits can stop behaving like a solid, and start behaving like a liquid, said Knudsen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ground turns into \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=57&v=Rd6W2aP2dkA&feature=emb_logo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a sort of quicksand\u003c/a>. Buildings on top can sink and crack. Also things that are in the ground and filled with air, like sewage pipes, can float to the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lots of bad things can happen if the ground liquefies,” Knudsen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmVYbjiNWds\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What’s being done to mitigate those issues?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The best way to prevent liquefaction and ground failure is to take steps when you’re first creating the artificial fill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11790693,science_1952317' label='The Building of Treasure Island']Treasure Island is one of few places in the Bay Area where a large new development is planned to go in on top of artificial fill. Developers there are able to test more intense mitigation techniques. Using things like wick drains and vibratory compaction, they’re draining the water out of the ground, shaking it to settle the loose materials and then pushing down on the fill with heavy dirt loads to compact it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1952317/rising-seas-and-sinking-land-the-precarious-future-of-treasure-island\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">read more\u003c/a> about what’s happening there in our two-part series about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11790693/magic-city-and-the-making-of-treasure-island\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the artificial island\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bad news, though, for most of the Bay Area is that it’s hard to go back and re-engineer buildings that are already built. Once an entire neighborhood is constructed, options are even more limited. Anything done to mitigate the risk for one building could affect the others. For example, the San Francisco Transbay Terminal developers used “dewatering” techniques to suck the water out of the ground before they built the terminal. Now \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Sinking-Millennium-Tower-s-developer-built-9278364.php#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">developers of the sinking Millennium Tower say\u003c/a> that affected their building. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We do have some standard practices for new buildings built on top of fill:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Slab or mat foundations — if part of the ground liquefies, then the whole building will sink or tilt in one piece instead of cracking\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Friction piles — it’s a kind of pile foundation that goes deep down, through the fill, into the mud. Some buildings have piles that go all the way to the bedrock\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the biggest things that changed after the 1989 earthquake were new requirements to notify people who live in hazard zones. You can use \u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/geohazards/eq-zapp\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the California Earthquake Hazard Zones App\u003c/a> to plug in your address and see if you live in an area at high risk for liquefaction or landslides in the event of an earthquake. The \u003ca href=\"https://earthquake.usgs.gov/hazards/urban/sfbay/liquefaction/sfbay/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">USGS also puts out updated hazard zone maps\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, just because you’re in a liquefaction hazard zone doesn’t necessarily mean you live on fill — or vice versa. And those former marshlands and tidal wetlands are not at high risk for liquefaction if the bay mud didn’t have artificial fill put on top of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>OK, so which parts of the Bay Area are fill?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>We have maps to show you!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only way to know \u003cem>for sure\u003c/em> if you live on fill is to hire a geologist and do a boring into the ground. Short of that, the other way is to map the geological deposits the way the USGS does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We overlay them on current maps and then the boundary between what used to be the coastline and what is currently the coastline … that’s been filled,” Knudsen said. USGS also does additional topography work to put together \u003ca href=\"https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2000/of00-444/of00-444_7b.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">detailed maps of geological deposits\u003c/a>. While this can miss individual buildings or neighborhoods, it’s the most accurate record of the whole Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using that USGS data, we created this map showing artificial fill areas and former tidal marshlands or wetlands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"700\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https://kqednews.carto.com/builder/b488870b-a8c4-43f4-803a-04691206c9e3/embed\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.6255em;\">Data from the US Geological Survey from \u003ca href=\"https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2000/of00-444/\">2000\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1037/\">2006\u003c/a>. \u003c/span>\u003cbr>\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.6255em;align:right\">Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Lisa Pickoff-White contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When Nicole was growing up, her grandmother always told her: Don’t live anywhere built on artificial fill. Her uncle also had strong memories of watching the Marina District burn after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, when parts of the ground liquefied, causing buildings to collapse and gas lines to break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicole wants to follow her grandmother’s advice, but she needs to know a few things: \u003cstrong>“What neighborhoods and cities in the Bay Area are built on filled land? And what are those cities and neighborhoods doing to mitigate the risk of liquefaction?”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11799336\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 980px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/02/06/large-parts-of-the-bay-area-are-built-on-fill-why-and-where/screen-shot-2020-01-31-at-11-31-01-am/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11799336\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11799336\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-31-at-11.31.01-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"1228\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-31-at-11.31.01-AM.jpg 980w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-31-at-11.31.01-AM-160x200.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-31-at-11.31.01-AM-800x1002.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco shoreline from 1895. Pink shows areas of artificial fill; blue shows historical marshlands and creeks. \u003ccite>(Oakland Museum of California)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>What is fill?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Often, when we colloquially refer to fill around the Bay Area, we’re actually referring to two different things:\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>Artificial fill \u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Former or “reclaimed” marshlands and wetlands.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Artificial fill\u003c/em> is land that was created by piling up soil, mud, rocks, rubble and dirt. In many cases, mud was pumped up from the bottom of the San Francisco Bay to fill in piles of rocks, then allowed to dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In most cases, this fill was put on top of low-lying areas or shallow wetlands and marshlands. For example, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11790693/magic-city-and-the-making-of-treasure-island\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Treasure Island was made\u003c/a> by piling rocks and mud on the shoals north of Yerba Buena Island. The land that is now the Marina neighborhood in San Francisco was originally filled in for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition — in some cases using debris and rubble from the 1906 earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11799305\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/02/06/large-parts-of-the-bay-area-are-built-on-fill-why-and-where/rs40412_sfpl-ti-construction-dredging-aad-3783_600dpi-qut-1200x885/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11799305\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11799305\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40412_SFPL-TI-Construction-dredging-AAD-3783_600dpi-qut-1200x885.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"885\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40412_SFPL-TI-Construction-dredging-AAD-3783_600dpi-qut-1200x885.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40412_SFPL-TI-Construction-dredging-AAD-3783_600dpi-qut-1200x885-160x118.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40412_SFPL-TI-Construction-dredging-AAD-3783_600dpi-qut-1200x885-800x590.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/RS40412_SFPL-TI-Construction-dredging-AAD-3783_600dpi-qut-1200x885-1020x752.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Army Corps of Engineers dredged up the equivalent of 2½ million dump trucks of bay mud and sand to construct Treasure Island. \u003ccite>(San Francisco History Center/San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Reclaimed marshlands and wetlands\u003c/em> are not technically fill. However, building levees and draining marshes did change the coastline of the bay, allowing for more development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of years ago, the coastline of the Bay Area looked very different. In many places, the edges of the bay were marshland or wetlands. During the late 1800s and early 1900s, lots of that got drained. People built levees and “reclaimed” the land for what they considered useful purposes, like agriculture. These days, some of those levees have been torn down and land is being returned to tidal marshes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11799307\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1434px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/02/06/large-parts-of-the-bay-area-are-built-on-fill-why-and-where/screen-shot-2020-01-31-at-10-08-04-am/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11799307\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11799307\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-31-at-10.08.04-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1434\" height=\"978\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-31-at-10.08.04-AM.png 1434w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-31-at-10.08.04-AM-160x109.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-31-at-10.08.04-AM-800x546.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-31-at-10.08.04-AM-1020x696.png 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1434px) 100vw, 1434px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These maps from the San Francisco Estuary Institute show what was tidal marshland back around 1800 (left) and what today is still marsh, what’s been restored to tidal bay lands and what is in the works (right). \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfbayjv.org/project-maps.php\">San Francisco Bay Joint Venture\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Why did we use fill in the Bay Area?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Because fill in the bay let us build, live and farm on land that was previously uninhabitable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the mid-1800s, \u003ca href=\"https://boomcalifornia.com/2017/09/27/californias-legacy-of-swamplands/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the U.S. Congress passed the U.S. Swamp Land Acts\u003c/a>. These were originally designed to help Louisiana drain its swamp lands and build levees — but were quickly put to use in other states. The laws allowed people to claim wetlands or marshlands as their own property if they drained it and used it for an agricultural purpose. This led to a spree of building levees and draining wetlands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the late 1950s, the Army Corps of Engineers did a study on the development of the Bay Area. They found 243 square miles of land “available for reclamation” \u003cem>had been\u003c/em> reclaimed. That’s a lot of former marshlands, wetlands and tidal lands to have drained or filled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4030153&view=1up&seq=112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You can read the full study here. It’s wild.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What are the problems with artificial fill?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>By the 1960s, we mostly stopped filling in the Bay because of growing environmental concerns. After the Army Corps of Engineers did its study of the Bay Area, they published a map projecting what the bay would look like if we continued to fill it in. The picture so alarmed people that eventually the state Legislature put an end to bay fill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11799315\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2430px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/02/06/large-parts-of-the-bay-area-are-built-on-fill-why-and-where/attachment/9494033/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11799315\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11799315\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/9494033.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2430\" height=\"2735\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/9494033.jpg 2430w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/9494033-160x180.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/9494033-800x900.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/9494033-1020x1148.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/9494033-1920x2161.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2430px) 100vw, 2430px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The map showing projected plans to fill in more portions of the bay by 2020. \u003ccite>(U.S. Army Corp of Engineers)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The other major problem with artificial fill, which wasn’t well known 100 years ago, is the earthquake danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Keith Knudsen of the U.S. Geological Survey, the fill built on top of bay mud or soft ground is at risk for ground failure or liquefaction during an earthquake. A lot of that old fill was not built with the best engineering practices. It was also frequently placed on top of mud or soft deposits, which amplify shaking. When you have high ground water, loose materials and heavy shaking, those deposits can stop behaving like a solid, and start behaving like a liquid, said Knudsen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ground turns into \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=57&v=Rd6W2aP2dkA&feature=emb_logo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a sort of quicksand\u003c/a>. Buildings on top can sink and crack. Also things that are in the ground and filled with air, like sewage pipes, can float to the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lots of bad things can happen if the ground liquefies,” Knudsen said.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/qmVYbjiNWds'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/qmVYbjiNWds'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>What’s being done to mitigate those issues?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The best way to prevent liquefaction and ground failure is to take steps when you’re first creating the artificial fill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Using things like wick drains and vibratory compaction, they’re draining the water out of the ground, shaking it to settle the loose materials and then pushing down on the fill with heavy dirt loads to compact it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1952317/rising-seas-and-sinking-land-the-precarious-future-of-treasure-island\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">read more\u003c/a> about what’s happening there in our two-part series about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11790693/magic-city-and-the-making-of-treasure-island\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the artificial island\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bad news, though, for most of the Bay Area is that it’s hard to go back and re-engineer buildings that are already built. Once an entire neighborhood is constructed, options are even more limited. Anything done to mitigate the risk for one building could affect the others. For example, the San Francisco Transbay Terminal developers used “dewatering” techniques to suck the water out of the ground before they built the terminal. Now \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Sinking-Millennium-Tower-s-developer-built-9278364.php#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">developers of the sinking Millennium Tower say\u003c/a> that affected their building. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We do have some standard practices for new buildings built on top of fill:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Slab or mat foundations — if part of the ground liquefies, then the whole building will sink or tilt in one piece instead of cracking\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Friction piles — it’s a kind of pile foundation that goes deep down, through the fill, into the mud. Some buildings have piles that go all the way to the bedrock\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the biggest things that changed after the 1989 earthquake were new requirements to notify people who live in hazard zones. You can use \u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/geohazards/eq-zapp\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the California Earthquake Hazard Zones App\u003c/a> to plug in your address and see if you live in an area at high risk for liquefaction or landslides in the event of an earthquake. The \u003ca href=\"https://earthquake.usgs.gov/hazards/urban/sfbay/liquefaction/sfbay/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">USGS also puts out updated hazard zone maps\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, just because you’re in a liquefaction hazard zone doesn’t necessarily mean you live on fill — or vice versa. And those former marshlands and tidal wetlands are not at high risk for liquefaction if the bay mud didn’t have artificial fill put on top of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>OK, so which parts of the Bay Area are fill?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>We have maps to show you!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only way to know \u003cem>for sure\u003c/em> if you live on fill is to hire a geologist and do a boring into the ground. Short of that, the other way is to map the geological deposits the way the USGS does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We overlay them on current maps and then the boundary between what used to be the coastline and what is currently the coastline … that’s been filled,” Knudsen said. USGS also does additional topography work to put together \u003ca href=\"https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2000/of00-444/of00-444_7b.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">detailed maps of geological deposits\u003c/a>. 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